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Show BUSY DAYS AHEAD FOR OFFICIALS ON TAX I MIXUP H AUPIIEME COURT RAISES LEVY H FOR CARBON SCHOOLS m Treasurer and Clerk Aro Compelled 1 to Reviso Tho Tax Rolls Bofore Is- H (ulng Notices, and Work Without M End Looms Schools Need Money Late Action Means Hustling. (Quick action was asked from tho supremo court of Utah in hearing tho difference of opinion between Car-1on Car-1on county school district and tho Carbon county taxing officials, o&or HJ1 "Iho school lax levy in this county. Tho H j 1)oard of education last week filed a H petition for n writ of mnndamug, di- H reeling tho county commissioners to H levy 8) mills for school purposes, In- M -stead of tho 7 mills proposed. Tho HI -supremo court ordered the county H eotninlMlimoni to do so by last Satur- H I -day or clso nmicar before tho court HI 1o show why they should not. H On the showing mado ilia supremo H court limned nn order to tho coinmis- M ' .sloncrs that tho 80 mills levy should H I bo made, and this nctiou was taken. H Tho suit was brought by tho board M I of education, couiocd of Carl It. HJ Mnrcuscn, A. W Dowd, Gcoiyn Ituff, H "W. J. Howns and .1. C. Schullr, againnt HI the county commissioners, Albert Dry. P I ncr, A. I!, Olbson nnd Emll Ostliuid; M J Treasurer 11. S. Itobinctt; AwcMor B A. II. Draer nnd Clerk II. C Smith. m ) Tho board of education had fixed tho H budget nt $275,176 80, which Include! H -$163,-45i) 10 for teachers' salaries mid I $32,120 for interest ou londs. M It was intimated that $50,000 would K w bo rcccUcd from tho various state HI school funds, bringing tho amount to M be raised by county taxation to $225,- m S 170.80. This, tho complaint net forth, H Mould require, on tho assessed vnlun- H i TiieoWowflifinwuflin1 HI ed to fix tha ovy at any higher than HI 7 mills. This, It mm asserted, would HJ necessitate shortening tho school joar HJ from nluo months to seven, in which HJ case tho high school would not rtceivo V stato aid and tho deficiency would bo j further increased to fl2,0U0. H More or lens of u tunnoil was HJ .created in tho county treasurer's tf- Ifito by this move, us Treasurer Kohl-nctt Kohl-nctt Mas in tho middle of getting out tho tax notlco utujer tho nrevlous levy, as tho timo was well along for tho wurk. Ah outlined in our col-umns col-umns n week ago, tho printed tax no- tiees bad all been delivered to tho Ml treasurer, nnd it became nciossnry to H mako tho correction of tho amount of H tho school lew and of tho total gen- H -era! tax on tliese notices. As thcro M nro twelve tliousand notices nnd tho j samo number of duplicates, this work H -will require tho time of Tho Sun's fl tireMtw for something liko sixteen HJ hours. All extensions on tho tax rolls j i must bo revised, nnd thu extra work H j plnced on thu clerk's nnd trensuroi's H office comes at n timo licit the M J heaviest work of tho veai wc-iill huvo H , been in progress without nny addl- H lions. |